He was no more scrupulous on most subjects than the ordinary man of his own class.
Still, _he had been married himself_.

That made an immense difference, for he was positively capable of seeing (and with sympathy) from the husband's point of view.

Even now, indifferent as he had been to his own wife, and after ten years, it would have caused him pain and fury had he found out that she had ever tried to play him false.

Of course, cases varied.

He knew that if Edith had been free his one thought would have been to marry her.